Thinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
BARBARA SHERThe amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.
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Whenever you do what you really love, your heart lifts, your mind opens, and everything changes. You wake up. That’s what true adventure really is.
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Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.
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Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.
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It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
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Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
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DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.
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When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.
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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
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Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think Does this go toward or away from what I want? Always choose what goes toward what you want.
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The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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